On Montag, 21. März 2016 09:37:29 CET Richard Brown wrote:
On 21 March 2016 at 09:29, Cornelius Schumacher
wrote: How are you going to handle reports of the treasurer to the membership?
That's an open question. Given the nature of the funding of the openSUSE Project we are often not in a position to provide full detailed reports in public, but of course we want to make sure everyone knows the benefits we reap from the wonderful help of our sponsors.
It's clear that some data can't be shared in detail, e.g. because of privacy
reasons. In non-profit organizations it usually is an obligation to share at
least higher level financial data with their members, because that's who the
board and other elected people are accountable to. If we introduce mechanisms
which resemble a non-profit organization such as a treasurer, I think it would
be a good idea to also adopt the corresponding practices in terms of
accountability and transparency.
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Cornelius Schumacher